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Women create protagonists who interiorise their ghosts and experience real terror. As Ann Radcliffe realised way back when, “terror expands the soul and awakens the faculties.” Maybe we read, and write, ghost stories, to feel that awakening.

WOMEN IN HORROR MONTH 2018 GUEST POST Women may often appear bright, full of kindness and compassion, but that’s not the whole truth, the entirety of who they are. For every time they have been deceived, hurt, wounded, betrayed or cheated, a small piece of their soul is chipped away, replaced with darkness.

Sometimes I write. And it amused me to no end when my readers came to me a year or two into publishing and explained to me that I was a Dark Fantasy author. I had never supposed such a thing. So I had to step back and look at my stories, seeing them with new eyes. I...

If someone could pick out a body, be it skinnier, shapelier, or more athletic than theirs, and fuse their head onto it, do you think the new idea would spread like wildfire, or simply smoulder like a green piece of wet wood in a campfire?​

WOMEN IN HORROR MONTH 2018 GUEST POST The problem was that I still hate the gore that comes with Zombies so creating a story about them had a few slight things to work out. I felt like I was writing scenes with one hand over my eyes and the other on the keyboard, but as I got into the story it became a little easier.

WOMEN IN HISTORY MONTH 2018 GUEST POST Choose your poison, and I will gladly pour a healthy serving. I don’t want to just scare you, as fun as that is, I want you to consider your fear and inspire you to begin to develop an antidote

WOMEN IN HORROR 2018 GUEST POST Female characters in fiction, especially horror fiction, and its sub-genres are considered unworldly and unnatural, women supposedly being gentler than men and largely incapable of the evil or dastardly actions of men.

At the beginning of Crone, Heather has largely disassociated herself from the world, and her bereavement has alienated her from any pleasures in life. The third relationship, and perhaps the most important to her when the novel opens, is Pip, her aging and scruffy lurcher dog.

It is no coincidence that a woman’s version of horror is specific to the vulnerabilities of being a woman, and our culture’s representation of the worst kind of villainess is the woman not shackled by these fears.

WOMEN in HORROR MONTH GUEST POST Women are a requisite of the horror genre these days, as more and more women are entering the genre with their eyes open and blood dripping from their keyboards. Gone are the days when men had readers biting their nails and sitting on the edge of their seats